Country of origin United States Official website www.pennwell.com Founded 1910 | Headquarters location Tulsa, Oklahoma Founder Patrick Boyle | |
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Publication types Magazines, newsletters, books, maps, directories, databases Headquarters Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States Subsidiaries Fire Apparatus, LLC, KMI Research | ||
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PennWell Corporation is a family-owned, diversified business-to-business publisher founded in 1910 and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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PennWell publishes 45 business-to-business magazines and newsletters, conducts over 60 conferences and exhibitions on six continents, and also offers books, maps, directories and database services. In 2011 it acquired a data mapping company and also expanded its publications in the technology field.
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History
The company, originally called the Petroleum Publishing Company and owned by Pennsylvanian Patrick Boyle, began in 1910 with the acquisition of a magazine based in Beaumont, Texas, called Oil Investors Journal; Boyle moved the publication to Tulsa and renamed it Oil & Gas Journal. Boyle died in 1920, and was succeeded first by his son-in-law Frank T. Lauinger, and then, in 1932, by his grandson P.C. Lauinger, who led the Journal to increasing financial success, established a number of other petroleum-oriented publications, and acquired publications in the dental care field. P.C. Lauinger remained in control of the company until his death in 1988; thereafter his son-in-law, Robert Biolchini, led the company until 2015, when Mark Wilmoth was elected president and CEO while Biolchini became chairman of the board.